~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu~
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children
are to say good night and go to bed.

~J.J. Furnas~
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia
trees.

~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929~I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to
play the game of life.

~Jean de La Fontaine~
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to
go.

~John Muir~Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful
blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable
unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and
streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is
stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

~John Donne~
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his
Sabbath.

~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945~
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I
do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or
something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People
coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and
all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

~Kenneth Patchen~
There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them
is death.

~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"~
For what is it to die,
But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

~Leonardo Da Vinci~
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been
learning how to die.

~Leonardo da Vinci~
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings
happy death.

~Lord Byron~
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

~Ludwig Büchner, Force and Matter~
Death is the surest calculation that can be made

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